Peons growing trees?

[Vonpuppin]

Is there any way for me to give peon's the ability to "grow trees" (build a building that looks like a tree and can be harvested like one)? I tried copying a gold mine, making it targeted like a tree, setting its health to the amount of lumber i'd like, then switching the model, but they cant gather it. I can't make peon's build doodads either. Any ideas?

 

[jig7c]

What you can do is:
assign a dummy target point ability to that peon, name it Grow Trees. (impale, carrion swarm)
When the peon clicks the ability and then a point on a ground, save that point (set point_var = target point of ability)
Then create a destructible - tree at that point, (dont sure if you can slow the animation)
You would have to set the lumber hp and other stuff in the editor

 

[Vonpuppin]

Ok, I get what you're saying, but I don't see a trigger event that says when _ uses _ ability, so I cant set the variable to the point to spawn the tree... so my question is how do I make the trigger?

 

[KaerfNomekop]

• Plant Tree
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Starts the effect of an ability (Unit - Generic Unit Event)
  • Conditions
    • (Ability being cast) Equal to Plant Tree (Ability Comparison)
  • Actions
    • Set TempPoint = (Target point of ability being cast) (Set Variable)
    • Destructible - Create a Summer Tree Wall at TempPoint facing (Random angle) with scale 1.00 and variation (Random integer number between 0 and 9) (Destructible - Create)
    • Custom script: call RemoveLocation (udg_TempPoint) (Custom Script)

 

[Vonpuppin]

Thank you very much, this works really well!